The National Geographic Magazine
Instead of Plowshares to Swords, It's Iron Fences to Guns and Bombs in This War
Workmen remove the railing from the home of Lord Beaverbrook, former Minister of War Production. Only
iron fences of historical interest, or those needed for safety, have escaped the nationwide salvage drive (page 156).
Castles have yielded hundreds of swords, pikes, and suits of armor in the intensive search for metal.
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